...the school on the Four-Day school week, ”the schools with shorter weeks still kept the kids in class for the same number of hours”,because of the traditional Five-Day week,which means longer hours in the classroom. So what will be better? Four-Day or Five-Day school week? The problem is that schools think that the four-day week would be better for the kids because school districts looking to save time and money have switched to four-day weeks. That"'s why other school districts are changing to the Four-Day week. Because they thought it would help the kids.When the schools with shorter weeks thought it would make the school week better for the kids, though some people believe that the four-day school week is worse. When it comes to deciding and arguing about the Four-Day School week,people will have opinions on it.So, according to Education World, they said,” Some school districts are looking to save time and money by switching to a four-day school week.” Then, The Cut said that,”Where 30 percent of school districts in the state have changed to four-day school weeks.” All of this information has all been on why school districts should change to a four-day school week....
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...Schools should not go to a four day week. Schools need to stay on a five day week method. During the five day school week students prove to be more productive. Four day weeks do have welfare and hurtful origins, this includes better time management, disadvantages to pupils, and teachers need to have a say in the decision. Spread out over the four days the lost day results only in about ten extra minutes per class period (Harfield, Brian). Four day school weeks give you more time to sleep in and more time off. People that go to church and have five day school weeks don’t get to sleep in. People with four day school weeks have more time to do homework, and an extra day to sleep in. During this time off we can have more time to spend with family also breaks could be longer. Moreover; about 100 of the country’s approximately 15,000 school districts, in seventeen states, use four-day school week’s method (Hartfield)....
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...Today, forty-three school districts and nine charters is expected to change to a four-day school week, but only ten school districts and two charters have actually only switched to the four-day school week. The four-day school week has been a very controversial problem. Currently, twenty-one states have school districts within them that have committed to the four-day school week, include Michigan, and Wisconsin. This has been caused by the lack of federal funding to school districts, in which, causes budget cuts and eventually, the shutdown of school districts. There are two arguments to the four-day school week. One argument is would save money for the school, so, they are for it. The other argument is the school would have more problems with four days in a school week than five days in a school week, so, they are opposed to the four-day school week. Due to the disadvantages of the four-day schools, such...
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...A four-day school week is a new idea gaining popularity with students and teachers across the United States. The advantages of attending school only four days per week. The financial savings to districts that jump on the four-day per week thingy can be good, regardless of the size of the district. However, there are other benefits that serve as motivation for jumping on this new educational system. students feel the four-day school week provides an opportunity for extra rest and a less stressful environment. Being out of school one day per week allows students to relax and be more productive. The four-day system provides opportunities for an extra work day at an afterschool job, engaging in volunteer activities or chasing additional educational...
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... The four- day school week! I personally feel that a five-day school week has many cons, and is not helping, but hurting my education. Sturgis Williams Middle School would be greatly improved by switching to a four-day school week, helping students, teachers, and administrators alike. To begin with, Sturgis Williams Middle School’s costs will be greatly reduced by removing a day from the traditional school week length. Without one of the days of the school week, SWMS will not have to pay for buses, saving the school money. In addition, SWMS will save money on utilities. The toilets, sinks, and drinking fountains will not be used five days a week, but four. Since the school would not have to pay for buses or utilities, the extra money could be used for other needs in school, improving the value of everyone’s education, including mine. As a result of the four-day school week, SWMS would save money, making it a better place....
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...of a four day school week? There are more things that are hurtful than helpful about the four day school week. The four day would not benefit a school but hurt it more. There are many reasons that some schools might use the four day school day school week but it might hurt the school more than it would help. School days will be longer to make up for the day that is lost to make a three day weekend. The four day school week will mess up many things with a regular school day, some of these will be longer classes, sports at a later time, makes less time for kids to do their homework, and go longer into the summer.. The longer classes are to make up the day that was lost for the three day weekend. They could have an earlier start time to make it to where the school would still end at three o'clock. Secondly with the longer classes will make sports go later on into each evening. This gives less time for kids to do their homework or any chores that they have to do at the end of the day and after school. Kids will have to go more weeks in the school year because it is required for all students to go 180 days for a school year. This will cut into families summer plans. When 2,700 schools were polled 67% said that it was...
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...Why a School Week Should Only Be Four Days Have you ever wondered if a school week will be changed from a five day week to a four day week? Do you ever not want to go to school on monday because you haven’t had a enough time to get your homework over the weekend and you are worried you're going to get in trouble? A four day week is necessary for our children because the statistics show if we have a four day week they will achieve better results academically, better attendance, kids need more family time and students will have more time to complete their homework they didn’t get done. A four day week is needed in our country because the other countries have the statistics that supports them changing it. One reason people think Australia should change school to a four day week is in America about 100 schools use the four day system and 67% of 2,700 students prefer this system. People did research on this topic and they found that on average math scores increased by...
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...Is switching to a four day school week better? According to many schools in the United States, switching from a five day school week to a four day school week is better. For the schools that have switched to a four day school week have seen improvement in their academics .In many schools that have adopted this, school officials have seen many students test scores and what not improve. In the study that has been done on 14 schools that switched to four day weeks seen improvement all the way down to 4th and 5th graders. The students improved their math score. This study was done by Dr. Mark Anderson of Montana State University and Mary Beth Walker of Georgia State University. A four day week conditionally good for all the grade levels in the...
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...the controversial topic of schools converting to a four-day school week. The main reason for this transition would be for schools to save money which was discussed in both articles. Many schools found that eliminating Fridays can save money on transportation, heating, food services and substitute teachers. The articles also stated that the number of student, teacher and staff absences also declined. Students’ scores increased which they believe is due to additional class time in the extended hours of a four-day week. This also provides the opportunity for students to catch up on any projects, assignments and participate in any extracurricular activities. Many teachers and staff would still be present on Fridays to complete paperwork, tutor, meet with parents and to help with the extracurricular activities. Small school districts in rural areas such as New Mexico, South Dakota and Colorado follow the four-day school week. This was due to the 1970 energy crisis. After this crisis ended, many of these schools never went back to a full five days of school. Many individuals in these small communities preferred the four-day school week rather than the traditional five-day school week. I understand that by eliminating Fridays from the normal school week costs are cut significantly, but I feel that the majority of staff and students will not use this day off to focus on studies or extracurricular activities in their schools. I believe fewer school days will reduce reinforcement of...
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...ECE 214 WEEK 1 ASSIGNMENT NUTRITION ISSUES To purchase this visit here: http://www.activitymode.com/product/ece-214-week-1-assignment-nutrition-issues/ Contact us at: SUPPORT@ACTIVITYMODE.COM ECE 214 WEEK 1 ASSIGNMENT NUTRITION ISSUES Proper health and nutrition is of critical importance to the growth and development of young children, yet many American children suffer from nutrition issues. Choosing either malnutrition or obesity, address the following: 1. 1. Discuss the short- and long-term impacts of this nutrition issue on children’s growth and development. 2. Describe a specific child (within the early childhood age range of birth to age eight) who has this nutrition issue. This may be a child you know or you can describe a fictitious child. In your description, address how the child’s school day is affected by the issue and describe three specific ways the early childhood teacher addresses the issue in the school or center setting. 3. Describe three specific ways to combat this nutrition issue that involve collaboration among school, family, and community (e.g., parent education, school breakfast, and lunch programs, etc.. The paper should be three to four pages in length, in addition to the title page and the reference page. Use at least two scholarly sources in addition to your text. Your paper should also be formatted according to APA style as outlined in the Ashford Writing Center. Carefully review the Grading Rubric for the criteria that will be used...
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...for your interest in the change, growth and empowerment of Native Youth Education. This curriculum was developed specifically for educators in the state of Maine’s public high schools who wish to use this guide as a tool to improve Native Youth Education. NEG (Native Education Guide) provides lesson ideas and examples that support current lesson structures as well as implementing a culturally appropriate material for the Native Student. While many Native Education curriculums exist, NEG is designed to adapt to the block scheduling of the Public High School in Maine. This curriculum recognizes the appropriate education material needed for its intended audience, which focuses on the tribes of Maine whose youth attend Public High School. NEG aims to provide its learners with a set of educational experiences that encourages empowerment and positive Native identity through community education. Native Education is the study of the human, tribal, environmental, historical and social experience of the Natives of Maine. Native Education is very complex with a lot of variables such as time, space, place and the students; NEG therefore focuses on a number of messages: - Community Building - Seventh Generation Sustainability, Economics and Ecology - School Education Policies and Institutions (Boarding Schools to Current Education Models) - Colonization and the “White Expansion” - Cultural Appropriation - Native Ritual, Ceremonies, Practices, Healing Circle - Dominant Religions...
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...approximated by using a focus group, consisting of four learning team members. Constructs, such as tuition cost, travel expense and resource expense data from each subject will be explored. In order to effectively measure the information obtained from the focus group, controls are implemented on the data. This study assumes that each student travels to and from the campus twice a week. The first trip is made to attend class and the second trip is made so that each student can participate in a physical learning team meeting. Since the duration of each class is five weeks in length, the analysis used is based on 10 trips to the University of Phoenix campus. Each student will complete 10 courses per calendar year. The distance involved in traveling to the campus will be measured by mileage, price of gasoline, and tolls. Another measurement is tuition cost per course. The constructs for the tuition cost include tuition reimbursement and out-of-pocket expense. Travel expenses were calculated based on current gasoline average cost of $2.69 per gallon. Mileages per gallon calculations were based on 17 miles per gallon of gasoline from participant’s home to the University of Phoenix’s Bucks County campus and their return trip to home. Subject one, Tyra, travels round trip from New Jersey to Pennsylvania twice per week for school. That travel translates into 25 miles per day or 250 miles per course. Tyra’s gasoline expenditure is $3.95 per day which equates into $39.50 per course. She...
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...Labor Day weekend of 1971 was when Cathy Kim received her first experience of a contraction. Mom Kim asked her, “Cathy you alright?” She replied, “Yes”, and prepared for the holiday weekend. Well come Monday morning, September 6 1971, Cathy was packing for Lake Erie and her water broke. She screamed for my father, “Bruce, my water broke!” My father ran from the living roll, towards the hallway for the bedroom to my mother. From the telephone in the bedroom he called his family’s home to notify them of the emergency. On that day, a baby girl arrived, and her name was Trina Marie Kim. In 1977, my father remarried to Diana Schoonover, and she adopted my brother and me in the early eighties. In the late eighties I volunteered at the Helping Hand Club, took the bus to school, and lived on my own. April fool’s day of 1992, I experienced a contraction. At four o’clock in the morning April 2, 1992, was sleeping, but Kyle had other plans for me. I bolted to a sitting position with the bed all wet. Six months or so after Kyle I started thinking about when he would begin school. This is when I decided to return to school and received my GED in 1994. Instead of registering with the local university I registered with the local factory as a CNC operator. In 1998, my second son, Shane came into the world. In 1999, went to Hamlin Steel hired as a press punch operator working sixty to seventy hours a week. In 2003, my mother passed away, and I registered with the local vocational school for Mechanic...
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...Once I was nine years old. One day I went to Wal-Mart with my mother and I wanted to look at the toys. "Hey Mother," I said "Yes?" My mom said. "May I please go look at the toys in the toy area?" I said. "You may just looking, we may not buy any toy," My mom said. "Ok, thank you mother," I said. So I started walking to the toy area, there were all these awesome toys and stuff. I was there for at least an hour, I was just there waiting for my mom to pick me up. I was getting exhausted from walking, and I didn't have a phone so I couldn't call her to ask her where she is. After another fifteen minutes, my mom had finally passed by the toys area with a cart filled with all this stuff for...
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...preparation and skills for future professional conference assignments in the workplace * Well-organized for doing things * Increase skills and confidence * Stress reduction and time management Obstacles: * Hard to present the object in English * Get nervous and stress for public speaking * Hard to control time * Hard to engage audiences and let them understand you Action plan: Action steps | Time line in | Support network and resources | Listen and participate to some professional pubic presenter | Once a week | Social activities | Learn the skills from book and school | 3 times a week | Teachers and learning materials | Talk to foreign people with body language and eye contact | Every day | Schoolmates, friends and social | Do not late and finish all the assignment on time | During university time | Teachers | Look at mirror to practice and tell myself I am the best | Once two days | Mirror | Completion date I will accomplish my goal in 6 months, and then I will give a public presentation to check how my improvement is. Action Plan Two Goal: organize a long duration trip with my classmates when we graduate Benefits: * Develop relationship with classmates * Improve the level of my leadership skills * Improve the patient for listening to others * Research skills * Time management skills Obstacles: * My classmates always stay in a same group, so there is not a lot opportunities...
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